Qaeda websites suggest Libi alive, promise new video
The messages posted by Ansar and Alfidaa websites suggested that Libi remains alive.
"Soon, a video message by Sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi, may Allah protect him," read the message posted by al Qaeda's Sahab media arm on both sites, one of which was put online on around 1500 GMT on Sunday.
The United States said Tuesday that al Qaeda's number two was killed in a drone strike, in the most weighty blow to the organisation since the killing of its founder Osama bin Laden.
Pakistani authorities spoke of a pre-dawn CIA drone strike on Monday on a compound in North Waziristan, near the Afghan border while US officials did not disclose details of the attack.
A trusted lieutenant of bin Laden, Libi appeared in countless al Qaeda videos and was considered the chief architect of its global propaganda machine.
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Hooray for Pakistan! We might have saved him again.
@LionOfPunjab: I agree with you. Libbi may have been seriously injured and his supporters think he might be able to shoot a video. If he were alive why did ithey take this long to refute the news? How long does it take to shoot a video, why not now? For his supporters OBL did not die in the US attack! Thanks and regards, Mirza
@Sweet Dee Yes. And for the umpteenth time he dies last week. Enjoy the show.
It may be possible that al-qaeda #2 escaped injured after the drone attack. Have to wait and see. However just airing old video by al qaeda woulnt do.
And dog and pony show goes on....
US lies and lies and lies.....
LOL...this is the same guy Pakistani authorities caught and handed over to the CIA, and then the CIA lost him in 2005.
so much for precision strikes and precise intelligence of USA...
They waited too long. It doesn't work as well when even other militant groups acknowledge the death first. Even I could rig up a "new video." It's just Al Qaeda's propaganda wing on the defensive.